Comments on: Time for some Ben Kingsley

By: PS

PS — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:04:41 +0000

re: ANNA's comment about the 3 movies she was allowed to see...I'm Mallu as well and weirdly, until I was 17 or so, my parents took me to 3 movies in a theatre - Gandhi and A Passage to India were 2 and 3, and the first one? Kramer vs Kramer! Not sure the thought process behind that one, but needless to say, I'm working it out in therapy (just kidding).

Same here, I'm not sure if it's a Mallu, South Asian or just plain old conservative parents, but I also only was allowed to see a few movies as a kid. I felt so out of it in high school when everyone had see every move - it took my college years to finally catch up and now I'm a movie fanatic I must say

By: Uber

Uber — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:11:53 +0000

I saw the House of Sand and Fog just last week. I am still wondering what the fuss was all about. The final scene where BK suffocates himself mirrored my emotion about the movie. Do they make such movies to get the hipsters excited? Another movie I felt that the hipster/pseudo intellect crowd lapped was Memento, the movie was flawed from the start.

By: meenu

meenu — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:17:27 +0000

re: ANNA’s comment about the 3 movies she was allowed to see…I’m Mallu as well and weirdly, until I was 17 or so, my parents took me to 3 movies in a theatre – Gandhi and A Passage to India were 2 and 3, and the first one? Kramer vs Kramer! Not sure the thought process behind that one, but needless to say, I’m working it out in therapy (just kidding).

By: Rani

Rani — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:50:56 +0000

i saw this on cnn.com and i couldn’t help but chuckle

Pair has “passionate” scene, says Kingsley

Mary-Kate Olsen has big kiss — with Ben Kingsley

By: chachaji

chachaji — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:51:00 +0000

Hi SemiDesiMasala and Chachaji. Thought I’d give you guys a shoutout. Haven’t been here in a while

Hi SemiDesi! Thanks for the shoutout, and also for asking about HoSaF, which I was too scared to ask about, because I still haven’t seen ‘Gandhi’ yet I’m so glad for the safe space aspect of SM, that I could admit to that, but at least I knew it was a movie, and was around when it first came out. But HoSaF, I could never admit to not even knowing it existed, but I guess I just did.

By: Zen

Zen — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:40:02 +0000

While SM readers may come off a bit hipster, I think we’re a little more nuanced and diverse than that

A lot of our banners are really old– i.e. from our first few months. I don’t know that we’d have chosen some of them today. But that’s neither here nor there, I just wouldn’t read in to them to the point of saying we are “glorifying” something. Our team inside the bunker reflects our diverse readership, in the sense that we never agree on everything.

Camille/ANNA, thanks for this insight. For a while I was beginning to think SM and crew was ripe for a parody called “I’m Brown” a la CB4. Oddly enough I searched for such a thing on YouTube today and came up with this uber appropo result:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YTOx-9j7IE

Enjoy!

By: Amit

Amit — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:27:42 +0000

What was Sand and Fog about anyway

A libertarian perspective on government unnecessarily meddling in people’s lives and screwing things up. /tongue-in-cheek

By: Amit

Amit — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:53:06 +0000

I have to respectfully disagree Kush. I don't think those four actors are in the same league as BK because I've never seen them play roles that showcase their diversity as actors.

Shalu, if you haven't seen them play diverse roles, that does not mean they haven't done diverse roles. I've seen enough movies that those four actors are in, and from my perspective, they all are very accomplished actors who have done diverse roles, as has Ben Kingsley. As for rating them in order, everyone will rank them differently based on what movies they've seen and/or whether they liked the roles or not. I personally enjoy all five of them as actors, and as to who is better, it's mostly subjective. Also, check out imdb for movies of those four actors - you'll find plenty of diverse roles.

By: HMF

HMF — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:49:51 +0000

What was Sand and Fog about anyway

A house.

By: SemiDesi

SemiDesi — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:35:17 +0000

Kinda late to this, I am, but gosh I love Ben (Well, Krishna.) I haven't seen a lot of the movies where he plays scary guys but I just can't get through the fact that he looks like a nice guy. I guess I will have to see one of those movies. What was Sand and Fog about anyway?

Off topic,

Hi SemiDesiMasala and Chachaji. Thought I'd give you guys a shoutout. Haven't been here in a while.